Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson, 1856. 1st Edition. Two volumes complete. Brown cloth with gilt titling to spines. Elaborate illustration to boards stamped in blind. Elisha Kent Kane was a US navy surgeon who was part of the first Grinnell Expedition which attempted to find the whereabouts of the..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: The Columbian Centinel, 1790. Folio. An original 18th-century newspaper printed during the first administration of President George Washington, the Columbian Centinel, dated September 25, 1790, with three different acts printed on the front page, all with the signatures of Washington in type script at the end of each..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. 1st Edition. 8vo. 1st Edition of this important 'Rivers of America' work, the first published in the 64-volume series. "Constance Lindsay Skinner initially conceived the series and was also the first series editor. "She wrote an essay that was included..... More
Harrisburg, Pa: Clarence M. Busch, 1896. 1st Edition. 8vo. Beautiful 1st Edition set of this seminal 19th-century history of the forts of early Pennsylvania. Rebound in modern burgundy Morocco with gilt titling to spines, this set is profusely illustrated with full-color maps, many being large fold-outs, as well..... More
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860. 1st Edition. 8vo. A beautiful two-volume set of this important Discovery & Exploration work on the American West before the Civil War. Domenech was a French Catholic missionary stationed in several mid-western and his job was to not only to attend the..... More
London: Hakluyt Society, 1982. 8vo. Four volume set devoted to the journals of the naturalist aboard the second expedition of Captain James Cook to the South Pacific. "When Joseph Banks withdrew at the last moment as naturalist on Cook's second voyage, Forster and his son were appointed to..... More
New York: Ethyl Corp, 1953. Evans, Lewis. Quarto. Beautiful 1953 color printing of Lew Evans' important and iconic map of the Middle Colonies of the British North America at the beginning of the French and Indian War. Published by the Ethyl Corporation presumably as a gift for employees or..... More